Conferences

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By Kari Dunn BuronFor professionals and parents to use with students of all ages.
This unique hands-on activity helps students who are highly anxious cope with their stress by systematizing social and emotional information. Using this self-contained product, the student literally sorts cards describing highly stressful situations into colorful pockets designating stress levels, ranging from 5-1, as a first step in changing the way he or she thinks about and responds to emotions such as anxiety, sadness and anger.

By Kari Dunn Buron. For professionals and parents to use with students in upper elementary school - young adulthood.
Building on the 5-point scale, Kari has written a workbook for adolescents and young adults called A 5 Is Against the Law! The book takes a narrower look at challenging behavior with a particular focus on behaviors that can spell trouble for youth who have difficulty understanding and maintaining social boundaries.

By: Priscilla Alden Thwaits Garcia
Recently updated, this book retells the remarkable story of Max Garcia, Michelle Garcia Winner's father, who survived the Holocaust and rebuilt his life in America. "As one of those who liberated that camp, I highly recommend the reading of this book." - Bob Persinger, the sergeant in the first tank that entered KZ Ebensee

By Dr. Peter Vermeulen. Context plays a critical role in the way the human brain processes information. This is especially true in the area of social information. Whenever we are in a situation, we take into consideration the who, what, where, when, and why of the many variables that surround us to determine what to say or do.

By Jessica Minahan and Nancy Rappaport Based on a collaboration dating back nearly a decade, the authors—a behavioral analyst and a child psychiatrist—reveal their systematic approach for deciphering causes and patterns of difficult behaviors and how to match them with proven strategies for getting students back on track to learn.

For parents and professionals to use with students 3rd grade and up. Being around others requires us to be social thinkers. We use our social skills to co-exist when we’re in a group—even when we’re not interacting with the people around us! To use our social skills well simply means each of us is sharing space effectively—but what does that actually look like? It involves being able to take the perspective of others. This user-friendly, helpful poster lays out the four steps of perspective taking and Social Thinking that keep us working together as a group, whether at home, at school, or in the community.

For parents and professionals. The Building Blocks of Social Development poster is a companion product to the Social Thinking early learner curriculum The Incredible Flexible You™. It shows the developmental building blocks that synergistically work together and result in a fully functional and flexible, kindergarten-ready child who possesses the social problem-solving skills needed to play with others and learn in a group. Excellent tool during IEP/treatment meetings and staff discussions to guide a deeper understanding of the social learning process in young children.

For use by professional and parents with students 3rd grade and up. An important life skill is learning how to cope when you get bored while working or being in a group. Our newly updated “Coping with Boring Moments” poster infuses humor into explicit, concrete information to help individuals learn more about the expected and unexpected behaviors related to boredom. With the support of the poster, teachers can engage in more-explicit real-life discussions about the social challenges students experience when they get bored and how to deal with them.

For students to use! Students enjoy squeezing the small, blue foam brains, and the brains encourage them to think more flexibly and abstractly about the size of their problems and the choices they are making. Used in lessons that encourage flexible thinking, including those in the Superflex curriculum and Thinking About YOU Thinking About ME, the brains offer a fun way to inspire our students to think about their social thinking and related skills. "Flexible Thinking is Social Thinking" is printed on the brains to reinforce the lessons the students are learning.

By Dr. Stephen Briers.For professionals, parents and individuals with AS to use themselves. Brilliant Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: How to Use CBT to Improve Your Mind and Your Life has been specially written to help give readers the insight, tools and confidence they need to understand and use CBT in their own lives. It offers a cohesive approach to this groundbreaking therapeutic technique that unfolds in a wholly logical, accessible and practical manner whilst enabling the reader to personalize the information and apply it to their own unique situation.

For professionals and parents to use with students 4th grade through high school.
Detective agencies come in many shapes and forms, but never before has there been a one-man social detective agency! Johnny Multony, himself transformed from a social misfit to a socially savvy kid, starts the first-ever social detective agency!